The debate over self-defence law in Canada has been thrust back into the spotlight following an incident in Vaughn, Ontario. York Regional Police have decided not to charge a homeowner who shot and wounded one of three armed and masked suspects who had allegedly forced their way into the man’s home. Ontario Premier Doug Ford even weighed in on the case, offering “congratulations” to the homeowner and adding that, “I’m glad you shot the guy.”
Last year the Trump administration designated Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) as a terrorist group allowing the military to carry out strikes against it and its leadership, but the massive drug cartel across the border understands the weaknesses of our system all too well.
That’s why its new leader has American citizenship.
Canadian soldiers transported M777 howitzers to the High Arctic to show their ability to fight in an increasingly contested part of the world. It did not go as planned.
Canada’s military ambitions in the Arctic hinged on a frozen door that wouldn’t open.
Hundreds of troops landing on an island in the High Arctic last month were confronted with wind chill temperatures of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit, frigid even by the area’s standards. The cold kept the locals in the Victoria Island hamlet of Cambridge Bay indoors, suffused the air with tiny ice crystals called diamond dust, and sealed a 30-foot-tall door at an airport hangar.
“It’s frozen,” said an air force detachment commander, “frozen shut.”
Canada’s foreign student program lacks integrity controls to verify ongoing visa compliance, and the government does not track whether students leave the country when their permits expire, the auditor general said.
Karen Hogan’s audit of the program released Monday found that the government was successful in reducing the number of study permits it issued each year but fell short on improving the integrity of the system.
Our government is nothing short of criminal.
🌏🛬🇨🇦🏘️ : Despite the record low Canadian birth rate, Ontario is projecting a 30% population increase over the next 25 years.
JHC. 🤨😠@fancypants_s https://t.co/vkfcNfLGwj
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 23, 2026
This means a lot more mass immigration is being planned, not less.
Ontario’s infrastructure is failing & there is an emergency level housing shortage.… pic.twitter.com/6xXIXm4EjI
— Bruce McGonigal (@bruce_mcgonigal) March 23, 2026
Monday, March 23rd saw soldiers deployed on Belgian streets, initially in Brussels and Antwerp. The initial three-month commitment will involve 200 soldiers, tasked with protecting Jewish community sites. Operations will be extended to Liège, including military backing for the railway police—and for large-scale integrated police operations (FIPA).
While the troop contingent will guard synagogues and schools, part of its assignment also includes working against the Kingdom’s burgeoning narcotics trade, especially in the capital.
Canada and the rest of the democratic world are facing a “tsunami” of transnational and digital repression with the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S., the arrival of artificial intelligence and a softening of attitudes on human rights, according to a respected Canadian cyber-research group.
The director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy issued the chilly warning in a presentation to be delivered Monday to a House of Commons committee studying transnational repression.
I agree technology inches us closer to a surveillance state every day but The Munk School suffers compulsive onanism.
Oh no, the America First/MAGA coalition is completely falling apart because – and I want to make sure I’ve got this correct – Donald Trump has systematically destroyed a bunch of Third World semi-human pagan savages who have been murdering Americans for nearly 50 years before they could top a missile with a hot rock and nuke Philadelphia. Yeah, the coalition is gravely disappointed – but not in Trump. It’s disappointed that a small component of his coalition that, for reasons that remain elusive and probably involve extreme greed, a psychotic break, gross stupidity, and/or libertarianism, which is an amalgamation of all three, has decided to adopt views that are functionally identical to those of the damn communists. This is both inevitable and unsustainable.
For the past seven decades, Canada has been the junior partner in a military agreement with the United States to protect the Canadian Arctic.
The Canadian and American flags could be seen billowing at a distance in the all-white Arctic landscape — the Maple Leaf visibly lower than the Stars and Stripes.
The asymmetry had a simple explanation. Flags across Canada, including this one in the hamlet of Cambridge Bay in the Canadian High Arctic, were flying at half-staff to mourn the recent mass killing at a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.
But its symbolism, however unintended, was a reminder of Canada’s increasingly uncomfortable situation in its Arctic region: Unable to defend it by itself, Canada remains dependent on the United States, whose president has repeatedly threatened to annex it, and who has also set his eyes on Canada’s Arctic neighbor, Greenland.
Why are they coming for me, personally? Should I be scared? pic.twitter.com/Kqqm5hADSI
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 23, 2026
Confirmed 99-0 and sworn in as the 72nd Secretary of State on January 21, 2025, the first Latino ever to hold the position, Marco Rubio pledged that every State Department decision would be governed by three questions: Does it make us stronger? Safer? More prosperous? That framework marks a return to the peace-through-strength paradigm that has consistently produced results when American leaders have had the conviction to enforce it. In a world still recovering from four years of Biden-Harris weakness and strategic retreat, Rubio’s Cuban-exile roots, legal training, and Senate-honed discipline position him to execute the most consequential foreign policy reset since the Cold War ended.
You have to see this video all the way to the end so you can admire the beautiful mural that CODEPINK has painted for the poor people of Cuba. pic.twitter.com/dPsHBmthJh
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 23, 2026
In the past few weeks, news on the Canadian economic front has tilted negative overall.
Statistics Canada came out with a February jobs report that showed employment declined by a net 84,000, which came on top of a loss of 25,000 jobs in January. The cumulative decline makes it the worst start to a year employment-wise since 2009.
GDP figures released late last month showed that Canada’s economy contracted in the final quarter of 2025, capping the weakest year for growth since the pandemic.
Data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century show why certain immigrant groups assimilated—and offer lessons for today.
When Americans hear the term “melting pot,” they often think of New York City: tenement blocks, Ellis Island, the Lower East Side, a montage of pushcart vendors becoming small business owners. Our national mythology about assimilation is rooted in the urban and Northeastern experience, suggesting that large, multicultural cities best assimilated immigrants.
Dual citizens weigh Trump, taxes in decision to renounce U.S. citizenship
Ella Heyder is bracing for a breakup, even though she already moved out decades ago.
She’s contemplating cutting ties altogether with her home country, the United States of America, and President Donald Trump.
“I’m quite disturbed by what’s happening in the U.S. under Trump’s regime. It’s a fascist, imperialist regime,” Heyder said as she and others waved signs outside the American Embassy in Ottawa during what has become a twice-weekly protest against the current U.S. administration.
